Chart Of The Day: The Most Expensive Election Ever In Context

The GDP of Nicaragua: $6.4 billion; the cost of the US presidential election to the two candidates: $6 billion, or $20 in petty cash per every US man, woman and child. Some things Wall Street (with Diebold's help) can buy (because no matter which candidate is left standing after the recount and the legal challenge to the SCOTUS, Wall Street again wins). For everything else, there's BernankeCard.

Today’s U.S. elections may be the most expensive in history, with a total of $6 billion being spent by the presidential candidates and contestants for seats in the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. That is 120 times more than the cost of the 2010 U.K. election and almost equivalent to the annual GDP of Nicaragua.

In other words, the admission price to this year long tragicomical farce is about $20 per person. Not bad considering the amount of entertainment.

This day is called Gustavus Adolphus Day. He that outlives this day and comes safe home Will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named And rouse him at the name of Gustavus Adolphus. He that shall see this day and live t' old age Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours And say, "Tomorrow is Gustavus Adolphus." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars And say, "These wounds I had on Gustavus Adolphus Day." Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words — Barry the King, Biden and Krugman, Clinton and Michelle, and the two girl children whatever the fuck their names be — Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. This story shall the good man teach his son, And Gustavus Adolphus shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered, We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in Chicago now abed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Gustavus Adolphus Day.

By the way, it doesn't matter what Corporate Controlled Government News Agency you watch tomorrow to get the election results. They all get the results from NEP. They'll all be feeding the sheeple the identical PsyOp of "we just got in these results." Remember it's paid actors providing a script "Program" for viewer consumption. Stealing elections since 2000. Now it's a perfected art.

The precursor was Voter News Service, which was disbanded in 2003, after controversies over the 2000 and 2002 election results. The NEP plan is largely the suggestion of CNN, which used Edison/Mitofsky as consultants in the past. Mitofsky headed the original pool that preceded VNS.

The organizers of the pool insist that the purpose of their quick collection of exit poll data is not to determine if an election is flawed, but rather to project winners of races. Despite past problems, they note that none of their members has incorrectly called a winner since the current system was put in place. [1] However, to avoid the premature leaking of data, collection is now done in a "Quarantine Room" at an undisclosed location in New York. All participants are stripped of outside communications devices until it's time for information to be released officially.

Then voted NO!!! on flouridating our city water supply -- keep your industrial waste out of my drinking water! If I wanted more flouride in my diet I would eat toothpaste - which has a poison label on it for ingesting more than a teaspoon!

Also voted against my Republicon Congressman who voted in favor of NDAA -- I picked the Libertarian candidate (whatshisname).

Sadly, we really are not given the choice of Liberty or Tyranny -- it's just Red Tyranny or Blue Tyranny.

diebold, syctyl (sp?) and soros..that fat jew knows where the money is to be made...fixing elections costs and has high profit margins..soros invests in only a money maker..smart, very smart. why no american co has the tech to pull it off is your question of the day.

I just hope this shit is all over with tonight and it doesn't drag out for weeks. We are a little behind schedule on our slide to hell. Next distraction....a tv war for your viewing pleasure..guaranteed to have an explosive ending.

The US does not spend too much on Presidential elections. The US spends $50 billion per year on domestic dog and cat care (and thousands of other unneeded items (e.g., the US spends more on chewing gum than Presidential elections, etc...)). The US spends relatively little on Presidential elections.

Wow. The negative reaction to spending 100x more on dogs and cats than we spend on Presidential elections over four years. Where's the logic to that?

And all those pet spenders will then confiscate my earnings to cover their medical and Social Security benefits. Very sad state of affairs.

[understand could have inserted many things for "pet spending" (e.g., restaurant eating, movie purchases, cable tv, ice cream, iTunes, or a thousand other totally unnecessary "luxuries" people spend money on -- I know, they are all necessities or entitlements at this point).]

" Nicaragua has a 6 billion GDP? Heck, at BankBernak rates we could financilize'm to 500 billion! Think of the fees!
You two( points to pug uglies in pinstripes ) take the Gulfstream and buy all the party leadership. Whores, coke, Columbia for the kids, whatever.
Oh, when you take off out of Peterborough airport, have the pilot fly over Staten Island. Dumping hot exhaust is a charity deduction on the cost of the fuel"

My son's teacher was requiring the students to work for one of the campaigns. My son wanted to work for Ron Paul. He was not allowed. The teacher said it had to be a serious candidate (I am not kidding) either Mitt or Barack. My son asked me to write a letter to get him out of it. I did. I said it was unethical to force him to campaign for someone he did not support and that furthermore we thought elections were a fraud anyway. Instead he did a 50 minute presentation on North Korea which he had a great deal of fun with.

More to the story. My son's friends said that he should have just sucked it up, that his presentation was a lot of work, more work than what they did. Seems Mitt's campaign was giving the students four times the credit vs. the time they really worked. They felt like they did nothing compared to what my son had to do to get out of it.

MsCreant- I'm out here in the West, and my daughter, who is attending a non-traditional school, just had the same dilemma. The school is for the multi-recycles and drop outs but with a better education mindset, and in her case, the oppurtunity to graduate a year early because all the 'electives' and 'sports' are removed and it is 'core' only. (She asked to go for the early grad, not because she was in jeopardy- Straight A student).

Anyway, I've been to the school and sat and chatted with each teacher at length. Very good crowd, the type I would have a beer with or talk politics. Except the one who provided the assignment. He's reminds me of the mole who is keeping tabs on both the students and the teachers. And guess what? No letter will get her out of the either/or dilemma. She stays pretty knowledgable about what's going on, and I've even caught her ready ZH in her room at night. Either way, it came down to a coin toss for the assignment, and she wouldn't tell me what the result was, but that she penned something for her 'choice' that kept him off her back.

Reports came out yesterday, she got an A for the quarter and is moving on to another class (like I said, very smooth and quick for graduation requirements), and this morning she said she never wanted to deal with someone like him again. I had to let her know that the world is full of em, but at least she knows how to 'snow' their sorry asses.

The most expensive ever election price is defining the 666 Mark of The New Secular Order Wahsington Monument Masonic (g)od and 2012 President power of the new age global market Beast leadership. The true expense of the mark of the 666 6 Billion suicide beast is ...death.

Take a single breeder female with two "learning disabled " spawn. In return for voting Democrat she can get a life style that would rewire $40-50,000 for a tax serf. Basically she harvest $160-200K for 30 minutes of voting ever year, her only true "work".
What can compete with that?

Huh? And why is this notable? We are a 3-person household. And we gave more than $60 to each the Gary Johnson and Ron Paul campaigns. Too bad EVERY American didn't give $20 each to Gary Johnson's and Ron Paul's campaigns! This $6B would then go towards freedom instead tyranny, funding slapstick and irrelevant "competition" between the two establishment candidates.